Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When a vehicle is captured and then lost in service with its new owners, it is only added as a loss of the original operator to avoid double listings. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it's not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
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They told us two years ago that the Russians were in the mopping up stage of the conflict. This video would indicate that they will be mopping up for quite some time.
Neptun launched from Odesa.
Sea skimming the whole way.
The ruzzians never saw it coming.
“russian ferry “CONRO TRADER” has been destroyed”
Looked like a nice ship. I’m sure the crew had families - but Tsar Putin demands blood sacrifices. Hundreds of thousands of them, to slake his thirst for more and more wealth and power.
There still seems to be some time left however, in which Russians can still get out from Crimea, before the bridge is down, and fuel runs out.
Run!
To the usual, good! Let it rain
Have we found the biolabs we have heard so much about?
🤔
Kyiv Independent reports today (22 Aug):
“Ukraine’s General Staff later confirmed a strike on the Kavkaz plant, which stored oil and petroleum products for the Russian army.
The fire reportedly began after Russian air defense units repelled a drone, but debris hit an industrial warehouse at the oil depot, igniting a diesel fuel fire.“
Once again, falling debris just happened to destroy the target. Fuel could become a problem for Russia.
“Rostov Oblast oil depot fire ongoing for 5th day, Russian officials report”
That really was (was) a major storage facility - one of the largest in Russia. It takes a lot of fuel to burn for five days, with 600 guys working to put out the fire.
Landing looks tricky😎
“Have we found the biolabs we have heard so much about?”
The gay Jewish Nazi bio labs, or the Anglo American globohomo New World Order bio labs?
On the previous tank farms, the only tanks that burned were the ones hit by a drone.
There is something different about this tank farm.
Tanks too close together?
Underground pipes too shallow?
Substandard material?
All the above?
Must be chemical weapons RT has been talking about 😎
“There is something different about this tank farm.” (Proletarsk)
The Rostov Governor said that firefighting efforts had to be suspended at times, due to additional UAV attacks.
22 of the 74 tanks were burning or burnt when last I saw a report. They held oil, gasoline and jet fuel; according to another report. A wall Street Journal reporter estimated about $200 million worth of product, at domestic Russian prices.
Other reports indicated that this facility held Strategic value in supplying Russian Military forces in theater.
Well over 300,000 women and children are known to have been trafficked through Ukraine.
Paedophilia, prostitution and modern slavery.
Russian propaganda? No, that's from USAID, now the US is catching up. pic.twitter.com/evTV726gTt— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) August 22, 2024
Speedy, these threads make me believe that some Russians hit their heads when they fell off the turnip truck.
“Russian propaganda?”
Yes, of course.
Obviously.
But hey, it’s a job.
But hey, it’s a job.
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So far only cretins have applied.
Ukraine launches counterattack in Kharkiv Oblast. (Keep those commies guessing)
Kyiv Independent reports:
“Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Assault Brigade launched a counterattack in Kharkiv Oblast and advanced almost 2 square kilometers deep into the front line area, the brigade said on Aug. 22.
Earlier in the day, the brigade released a video showing what it claims was the first footage of an “offensive in full swing” filmed in the eastern region.
“The main aim of the operation was to bring down the offensive potential of the 20th Army of the Russian Federation (roughly equivalent to an American Division). At the moment, this task has been accomplished,” Brigade Commander Andrii Biletskyi said...
…”The assault operations prevented the enemy’s attack from the direction of Makiivka and relieved tension from other critical frontline areas in the neighboring brigades’ zones,” the brigade said.
The village of Makiivka in Luhansk Oblast is located some 180 kilometers (111 miles) southeast of the city of Kharkiv.
According to Biletsky, Ukrainian forces attacked Russian troops that had superiority “and won.” The ratio of forces on the battlefield was 2.5:1 in Moscow’s favor, the statement read.
“The success depended on detailed planning, non-standard solutions, coordinated work of artillery, air defenses, and intelligence,” the commander said.
After Ukraine’s reported counterattack, Russia’s forces are stepping up the use of aircraft and other weapons, attempting to regain lost ground, the brigade said.
The 3rd Separate Assault Brigade is known to have been operating (last month) around the village of Borova in Kharkiv Oblast.”
Solution found to the Russian glide bomb problem?
ISW reports (22 Aug):
“The tempo of Russian aviation operations is reportedly decreasing throughout most of the theater, although this decreased tempo may be temporary, and its cause is unclear. (Coincidentally, the bases that host the glide bombers, and store their ammo and fuel, have been blowing up and burning, reportedly due to falling debris from gloriously intercepted drones)
Spokespeople for Ukrainian brigades operating in the Pokrovsk and Chasiv Yar directions both reported a general decrease in the number of glide bomb strikes and decreased Russian aviation activity on August 22. The spokesperson for the Ukrainian brigade operating in the Pokrovsk direction suggested that Russian aircraft shortages and Ukrainian air defense capabilities in this sector of the front may be prompting the Russian military to decrease aviation activity. ISW has not yet observed confirmation of decreased Russian aviation operations in the Pokrovsk and Chasiv Yar directions.
Ukrainian Kharkiv Group of Forces Spokesperson Colonel Vitaly Sarantsev reported on August 18 that Russian forces conducted 30 to 40 strikes per day in the Kharkiv direction a few weeks ago but have decreased the number of glide bomb strikes to roughly one to four strikes per day in the previous several days. Sarantsev stated that Russian forces may be conducting fewer glide bomb strikes to prioritize aviation operations in the Pokrovsk, Kursk, and Sumy directions or because of the effects of Ukrainian strikes against Russian rear areas (likely referring to Ukrainian strikes against Russian airfields). Data available from NASA FIRMS may partially corroborate Sarantsev’s statements about the tempo of Russian aviation operations in the Kharkiv direction.
Ukrainian Northern Operational Command Spokesperson Vadym Mysnyk stated on August 15 that Russian forces launched half as many glide bombs against Sumy Oblast as compared to August 14, although it is unclear if the decreased tempo of Russian glide bomb strikes against Sumy Oblast will persist.”
Border Security may have sucked so bad in Russia, because Putin can’t trust his own people with guns. Now they may be forced to assume greater domestic risks.
ISW reports (22 Aug):
“The Russian government has previously hesitated to fully allocate federal materiel to territorial defense forces. The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) allocated military weapons and equipment to the Belgorod and Kursk territorial defense forces in August 2023, although a Kremlin-affiliated Russian milblogger claimed that Russian authorities would store the weapons in a centralized, locked location and noted that it is unclear how the territorial defense forces will be able to access the weapons in an emergency.
Bogomaz’s claim that a VDV commander is leading Bryansk Oblast’s territorial defense forces may be indicative of the Kremlin’s wider intentions to allocate better-trained, “elite” commanders to lead units comprised of poorer-trained territorial defense forces or conscripts.
ISW previously assessed that the Kremlin may have attempted to balance the need for increased border security with a desire to avoid empowering decentralized military formations following the Wagner Group’s armed rebellion in June 2023. The Kremlin may be recalculating such assessments in the wake of the Ukrainian incursion into Kursk Oblast, however, and may be more willing to allocate greater materiel and manpower support to territorial defense forces.”
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